Anyone ever done this?

[jog]

Looking for any info in regards to
how to build or whether or not someone has done this before.
Looking to build a small hopper with a grizzly on it that will overhang a cliff, there will be drain pipe attached to the bottom of the hopper and it has to go about 250 ft to the bottom. Will shovel into it with a shovel, material will drop out into the back of a truck and be hauled to a nearby wash plant.

 

[jog]

200 ft of 4 inch drain pipe $115.00, all one piece, no seams or couplers.
That's pretty cheap if you ask me.
I don't know if the 4 inch would plug up if it's pretty much vertical, the material Inside the drain pipe should fall at different speeds, ( not positive though).

 

[jog]

https://youtu.be/kim1VxcaOGc

Here is a look at what I have to work with.

 

[Hefty1]

200 ft of 4 inch drain pipe $115.00, all one piece, no seams or couplers.
That's pretty cheap if you ask me.
I don't know if the 4 inch would plug up if it's pretty much vertical, the material Inside the drain pipe should fall at different speeds, ( not positive though).

Jog where did you find 200 ft of pipe?

 

[jog]

http://www.agrisupply.com/

Found it here, it's a 250ft roll for 115.00.

 

[jog]

If I can find online I can get it locally. May have order it but I can get it.

 

[gold tramp]

https://youtu.be/kim1VxcaOGc

Here is a look at what I have to work with.

looks dry washable,
build yourself a dry tromell, a little shaker action for the riffle tray and some air blowin through it to help dry your materials run twice i think youd have it licked.

dont know if youve tried the drywasher yet as some dirt types i run here has heavy gold it can be really moist and the gold will fall out, just a thought,
also during the dry spells if you could stack your ore in piles have at the ready tarps to cover during wet periods, summers coming so you may get the weather to work in your favor.
GT.....................

 

[jog]

Looked at the type of pipe I was thinking of and looks like it is corrugated inside like was mentioned earlier so it will have to be a different type. I enjoy all the ideas shared here, keeps my brain working overtime.

 

[jog]

looks dry washable,
build yourself a dry tromell, a little shaker action for the riffle tray and some air blowin through it to help dry your materials run twice i think youd have it licked.

dont know if youve tried the drywasher yet as some dirt types i run here has heavy gold it can be really moist and the gold will fall out, just a thought,
also during the dry spells if you could stack your ore in piles have at the ready tarps to cover during wet periods, summers coming so you may get the weather to work in your favor.
GT.....................

Thanks, great advice.
Have thought about just trying a dry washer to see what happens.
I know this guy with a trommel that would work to dry screen the material first, haha!

 

[gold tramp]

Thanks, great advice.
Have thought about just trying a dry washer to see what happens.
I know this guy with a trommel that would work to dry screen the material first, haha!

Yes do try a drywasher a lot of folks dont realize that they can run moist dirt. if the gold is meaty you will grab the heavy stuff. run it twice, run it slow.
you need a puffer drywash to do this as the vibration of the power units tend to just settle the heavy wet dirt, the action of the puffer, hops the ore over the riffle, this way you should be able to run moist dirt.


we had a dry tromell at our mill shop. i never used it.
it was just a basic tromel, had a drywasher type riffle tray vibrated and had air flow in place of a sluice.

if i can find i think i have a pic of the dadgum thing.

the guys informed me that the tromel riffle just vibrated, i will still look for the pics.

You could also look into building a skid, winch the ore down the hill we do this here when we have much steep ground for walkin up.

Ramblings of a desert gold tramp.

 

[gabatsns]

If it were up to me, I would rig a heavy duty zip line with two large buckets equidistant. when one was heavy enough to drag the other uphill, I would let it do so and have the buckets so rigged as to strike ( not savagely ) against a horizontal bar at the truck up ending the bucket and relieving it of its load , the opposite bucket will already be in place for the next run.

 

[mytimetoshine]

trying a drywasher before going all out on a chute would be the logical move. if it doesn't work then you can try the much more difficult and costly idea of a chute right?

 

[winners58]

if your looking for idea's maybe your own version of this;
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https://youtu.be/tueRDSkHmDw

Dave Wilson's howto on Tnet; http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/drywashing/429187-gold-drum-2.html#post4674559

 

[jog]

if your looking for idea's maybe your own version of this;
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https://youtu.be/tueRDSkHmDw

Dave Wilson's howto on Tnet; http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/drywashing/429187-gold-drum-2.html#post4674559

That looks like that may be the ticket, I am assuming that the gold gets trapped in the back of the drum and everything else else just slowly gets worked to the front. Looks like a person would end up with very little material to run in the end. That would solve a lot of problems and time.

 

[arizau]

if your looking for idea's maybe your own version of this;
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https://youtu.be/tueRDSkHmDw

Dave Wilson's howto on Tnet; http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/drywashing/429187-gold-drum-2.html#post4674559

One h..l of a lot better than hauling an excess amount of barren material to a remote wash plant! You may lose some fines but that is likely an acceptable trade off all things considered.

 

[OwenT]

That could make a really nice washplant if you got some water spraying everything in there. But for dry purposes it looks pretty good too.

 

[jog]

I think a system like this would work real well with the type of soil I have with very little modifications.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Look up "landscaping chute". Not cheap but if you've got a lot of material to move they will do the job.

Example

If it was a straight drop you could use a canvas construction chute. A lot cheaper.

Heavy Pans

 

[jog]

Look up "landscaping chute". Not cheap but if you've got a lot of material to move they will do the job.

Example

If it was a straight drop you could use a canvas construction chute. A lot cheaper.

Heavy Pans

Thanks Clay
I will look into that because it's pretty much straight down.